The former National Security Agency contractor who uncovered US executive surveillance programmes by means of disclosing categorized subject matter in 2013 has a brand new process: app developer.

Edward Snowden in a video message Friday unveiled a brand new telephone app he helped create, known as Haven, that targets to give protection to laptops from bodily tampering.

Snowden says it is an open-source device designed for human rights activists and other folks in peril and it makes use of an Android telephone’s sensors to stumble on adjustments in a room.

The device used to be evolved with the Freedom of Press Foundation and the Guardian Project. It has been greeted with combined social media reactions, with some other folks celebrating its safety functions and others announcing they do not believe Snowden.

Snowden has lived in Russia since 2013, when the rustic gave him asylum, resisting US power to extradite him.